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The Turing-complete programming languages are the main feature that makes the Ethereum blockchain vastly more potent than the Bitcoin blockchain for building new programs. Ethereum’s scripting language makes programs like Twitter applications possible in a few lines of code, as well as extremely secure.

Smart contracts, like the one you create in ssss1 of this minibook, can also be built on Ethereum. (You can find out even more about smart contracts in Book 4, ssss1 and ssss1.) The Ethereum protocol has opened up a whole new genre of applications. You can take just about any business, government, or organization’s processes and build a digital representation of it inside of Ethereum. Currently, Ethereum’s platform is being used to manage digital assets (a new class of asset that lives online and may represent a whole digital asset such as a Bitcoin token or a digital representation of a real-world asset such as corn commodities), financial instruments (like mortgage-backed securities), records of ownership of assets such as land, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).